First a tall bamboo and coloured paper structure loaded with connecting tubes of gunpower are placed as close as possible to a historic building.
Then the people surge forward as the tubes of gunpowder on the lower section of the structure are lit.
The structure shakes and whines with the strain of the energy being released as the gunpowder
tubes explore in an upward direction.
At the same time jets of fire shoot out from the sides, hurling bits of burning bamboo into the crowd who retreat screaming to a safer location.
By the time the structure is fully lit it is like being in the middle of a war zone, with rockets hurling into the sky and spraying burning debris on the ground below.
My thanks to Ed for braving the war zone to shoot the photos
and not hiding behind pillars like the rest of us.
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